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invertebrate animals from each collecting station along the 

 stream, and notes on the habits of these forms are being made 

 as well as upon fish, but at present no detailed report upon them 

 can be made. Campus creek is a good crayfish steam. Am- 

 phipods and isopods are common in its headwaters and those 

 of some of the larger tributaries. Snails of several kinds are 

 numerous!. Such aquatic insects as dragon-fly larvae, damsel- 

 fly larvae, and caddice worms are abundant, and some interest- 

 ing problems concerning these and other invertebrate forms 

 have presented themselves. Of the species of aquatic verte- 

 brates other than fish, no one is abundantly represented. 

 Crickets frogs, Acris gryllus LeConte, leopard frogs, Raiia pi- 

 piens' Schreber, and green frogs, Rana clamitans Latreille, are 

 found in numbers in spring. Careful search has failed to re- 

 veal any amphibian eggs in any part of the stream, and tad- 

 poles are scare at all seasons. Only one tu»*tle, a large snap- 

 ping turtle, Chelydra serpentina Linnaeus, has been seen by me 

 about the creek. Water snakes. Matrix sp., are now and then 

 noted, and are especially common in late spring. The following 

 water birds have been recorded by me from different parts 

 of Campus creek system Carolina rail, Porzana Carolina, king 

 rail, Rallus elegans, Wilson's snipe, Gallinago delicata, spotted 

 sandpiper, Actitis macularia, green heron, Biitorides virescens, 

 and American bittern, Botaurus lentiginosiis. 



Of the fifty-four species of fish found to my knowledge about 

 Charleston, seventeen are represented in Campus creek. A list 

 of these, using the names employed in the recent work on the 

 Fishes of Illinois by Dr. Forbes and Mr. Richardson, is here 

 given : 



Chub sucker, Erimyzon sucetta ohlongus (Mitchell). 

 Stone roller, Campostoma anomalum (Rafinesque). 

 jBlack-head minnow, Pimephales promelas Rafinesque. 

 Blunt-nosed minnow, Pimephales notatus (Rafinesque.) 

 Horned dace, Semotilus atromaculatus (Mitchell). 

 Golden shiner, Ahramis chrysoleucas (Mitchell). 

 Straw-colored minnow, Notropis hlennius (Girard). 

 Silverfin, Notropis wMpplii (Girard). 

 Common shiner, Notropis comutus (Mitchill). 

 Blackfin, Notropis umhratilis atripes (Jordan). 



